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How to Make Bacon Wrapped Chicken Wings Super Bowl Recipe

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Dammit, this is America, and if we settled every time we believed something was “good enough” we never would have put a guy on the moon, or developed the Domino’s 30-minute guarantee, or developed those little Sriracha keychains so you can hot sauce your burrito while owning.

My point is, in some cases you just have to take shit up a notch. Sometimes, you need to crank that gnarliness dial all the way as much as 11, ride the lightning, and get odd with it and all that great stuff. Often, you need to cover all your chicken wings in bacon and then cover them in scotch sauce. Do it for football. Do it for America. Do it on your own, man.

Covering wings in bacon is more craft than science. There’s no ideal method to do it, but as long as you can get some smoked pork strips to stay with chicken while it’s cooking, you’ve done your task. Toothpicks are your good friend here. You wish to pin the end of a piece of bacon to the very bottom of a wing with a toothpick, then cover the bacon firmly in a spiral up the wing, and pin the other end to the top. It’s an easy process. (Albeit, much less easy if you’re doing it a few beers in. Like me. Oops.)

When it concerns cooking the chicken, roasting the wings is for sure the method to go here. Deep-frying them can cook the bacon too quick and make it taste shitty and oxidized. Pan-frying them can leave whatever being in a puddle of grease, which isn’t the worst issue, however it’s not ideal. Roasting them on a rack lets all the bacon fat render and melt through the chicken while leaking onto the sheet tray and not soaking up any excess.

When it comes to the sauce, a lot of whiskey-glazed things are bullshit marketing gimmicks from sit-down chain restaurants designed to fool you into spending $14.95 for microwaved ribs. This is not that. The ginger, shallots, and soy add a resounding savory, aromatic quality to it, the maple brings that sticky success, the vinegar hits you with the acid, and after that the whiskey is the funky bassline running through all of it. This readies. Make it. And then perhaps make a 2nd batch to share.

Instructions:

Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. Use a chef’s knife to hack the pointers off the chicken wings and dispose of. Pull the wing apart and slice through the excess skin linking the drumette and the flat to expose the bone. Find where the 2 bones satisfy and use your knife to slice through the intersection, producing two separate parts to the wing. You should have 24 pieces of chicken. Boom, now you know the best ways to butcher wings. You’re welcome.Take a chicken

piece and cover a piece of raw bacon around it, utilizing two toothpicks to secure the loose bacon ends. Repeat till all wings are wrapped in bacon. Place the wings on a wire rack on a baking sheet and put the sheet in the oven for an hour, turning halfway through.While the wings

are roasting, make the glaze. Heat the butter in a big sauce pot on medium heat, when it’s melted, include the shallot and ginger. Sauté for about 5 minutes until the shallots are clear however not caramelized. Include your scotch, black pepper, maple syrup, soy sauce, hot sauce, and apple cider vinegar and cook for 10 minutes on high heat, stirring sometimes, till the mix is lowered. It ought to stick to the back of the spoon when it’s ready.Remove the wings from the oven, brush each wing with the glaze until completely lacquered up. Pop the wings back in the oven for an additional 5 minutes to complete them off. Eliminate the toothpicks from the wings, throw the wings on a big-ass platter or something, and shove them all in your facehole.